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Apr 13, 2017

My review after using it a couple dozen times... (I've been using a Snow Peak 600 cup almost exclusively for about 8 years, prior to getting this 800, so a lot of my comments are implicitly comparing the two.)
Packing is easy, the 800 is big enough to hold my 4 oz fuel can, stove, lighter and some coffee+tea packages with a little space to spare.
The silicone "cup" is pretty useless. It gets floppy when you warm it up, so drinking out of it is a real pain. As a cozy, it works well to keep the pot warm, but it expands when heated, then falls off /every/ time you pick the pot up. They need to either change the material to one with a lower thermal coefficient, or make it smaller/tighter.
The lid is likewise too fiddly. The little wings bend easily parallel to the handle axis, so you must be very careful putting it on the pot or you end up dropping it into the contents.
The rim on the pot is a folded flange, sized to hold the lid in place. Coming from the 600 with the nice rolled lip, drinking out of it is moderately uncomfortable. (Yeah, this is pretty trivial, but I noticed it, so I thought I'd mention it.)
The squarish bends on the handle are a big win. They are angled so that holding the cup upright is easy and very comfortable (compared to the D handles on the 600, which are impossible to control, as the handle just slides through gloved hands and you end up spilling things frequently).
Another win is the position of the handle, which is quite high, keeping it out of the flames, so I have yet to use a hot pad to pick it up off the stove. My 600 has discoloration on the handle from getting too hot, but the 800 has stayed unscathed as yet.
I originally got this because the 600 seemed a bit small, but now that I've used the 800 for a while, I find that 600 seems like a better size.